Have an old-fashioned Christmas
If Christmas isn’t part of your tradition, or you live in an international space station, then you might not care that Springfield, Missouri’s News-Leader has much of tips for you to bring back the Christmas holiday spirit of yesteryear.
Quoting Dakota Russell, historic interpreter at the Nathan Boone Homestead State Historical Site in Ash Grove:
In the 1840s, you started getting these big migrations of Germans into Missouri, and Irish. Each contributed to what became the standard idea of Christmas
It’s certainly got me nostalgic so I’m planning twelve days of famine and the killing of small birds.
See Also:
• Turkeyed Out
• Christmas Lights
• Irish Conversation in the American Midwest: Christmas
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
We need to respect Christmas. This was the day Santa died on the cross to save the world.